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Two defendants were tried and convicted in a California state court on felony charges including robbery, assault with a deadly weapon, and assault with intent to commit murder. A single public defender had been appointed to represent them on these three charges.
On appeal, the Court of Appeal of California (First District, Fourth Division) reversed the defendant's conviction and ordered a new trial. The Government's petition for hearing by the California Supreme Court was denied on July 29, 1970. Following two subsequent mistrials, the District Attorney declined to pursue a fourth trial, thus ...
The People of the State of California v. Robert Page Anderson , 493 P.2d 880, 6 Cal. 3d 628 ( Cal. 1972), was a landmark case in the state of California that outlawed capital punishment for nine months until the enactment of a constitutional amendment reinstating it, Proposition 17 .
After a mathematics instructor testified about the multiplication rule for probability, though ignoring conditional probability, the prosecutor invited the jury to consider the probability that the accused (who fit a witness's description of a black male with a beard and mustache and a Caucasian female with a blond ponytail, fleeing in a yellow car) were not the robbers, suggesting that they ...
People v. Turner, formally The People of the State of California v. Brock Allen Turner (2015), was a criminal case in which Brock Allen Turner was convicted by jury trial of three counts of felony sexual assault. [2] [3]
Stout, according to prosecutors, has two prior convictions under California’s “Three Strikes” law. If convicted of arson, he could be sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.
A California man drugged and raped nine women, including one who died from an overdose, authorities said.. Michel DiGiorgio, 50, now faces one count of murder, three counts of rape by use of drugs ...
Gama, 24, was sentenced to 15 years in prison on June 3, 2016, for a conviction of assault with a gun inflicting great bodily injury with an enhancement for a street gang act, prison officials said.